Farnborough 2014 - Anyone on here going?
Discussion
Few planes of interest today:
A350 arrives 07.40 validates at 11.00
A380 arrives 07.50 validates at 11.30
Meteor arrives 08.40 validates at 10.05
Vampire arrives and validates as above
Harriers arrive at 12.20
F-15 arrives at 13.15
Few other bits and bobs flying about during the course of the day also. Times are of course approx.
Red 7 is nestled nicely in one of the hangars, will post pics later
A350 arrives 07.40 validates at 11.00
A380 arrives 07.50 validates at 11.30
Meteor arrives 08.40 validates at 10.05
Vampire arrives and validates as above
Harriers arrive at 12.20
F-15 arrives at 13.15
Few other bits and bobs flying about during the course of the day also. Times are of course approx.
Red 7 is nestled nicely in one of the hangars, will post pics later
couzens said:
Few planes of interest today:
A350 arrives 07.40 validates at 11.00
A380 arrives 07.50 validates at 11.30
Meteor arrives 08.40 validates at 10.05
Vampire arrives and validates as above
Harriers arrive at 12.20
F-15 arrives at 13.15
Few other bits and bobs flying about during the course of the day also. Times are of course approx.
Red 7 is nestled nicely in one of the hangars, will post pics later
Little bit more detail to expand ou your post...A350 arrives 07.40 validates at 11.00
A380 arrives 07.50 validates at 11.30
Meteor arrives 08.40 validates at 10.05
Vampire arrives and validates as above
Harriers arrive at 12.20
F-15 arrives at 13.15
Few other bits and bobs flying about during the course of the day also. Times are of course approx.
Red 7 is nestled nicely in one of the hangars, will post pics later
Arrivals planned for Thurs 10/7
07.45 A350
07.50 A380
08.40 Meteor and Vampire
09.15 A400
11.00 Spanish Citation (U20-1)
12.20 Spanish AV-8B Harrier x 2
13.15 F15 (97-0221)
17.30 AW149, S211,SH90
21.00 CL60 (N548BA)
Validations planned
10.15 Meteor / Vampire
10.25 M346
11.30 A400 x 2 validations (consecutive)
12.00 A350
12.30 A380 x 2 validations (consecutive)
15.40 P8 x 2 validations (consecutive)
16.20 M345/346
Can't wait to see the A400 fly
yellowjack said:
So I need to worry?
One of the synchro pair heads straight for my bedroom window when they come down out of one of their manoeuvres, full beam on, all a-wiggling and a-jiggling as they form up for the next segment.
I watched several of the aircraft display this morning, as I mowed the grass at the front of the house, and I was very aware of the number of birds scared out of the trees between home and the airfield every time something loud went up. F-18 twice, Typhoon, the US Navy (737?) twin twice, the Reds, and later, coming out of my physio appointment, a twin engined transport (Transall/Spartan?) which may have just been 'arriving' rather than displaying.
As for the Arrows? They have a spare, which was seen flying with the nine display aircraft on Saturday, just before the Harewood House display for the Tour de France, although by the time they came in to paint the sky with their smoke, they'd dropped Red 10 and displayed as the usual nine.
Red 10 - the spare is for the commentator I forget his proper job title but he's a Sqn ldr. He's also used as a whip so Saturday at waddington when the reds displayed with a hunter and 3 gnats he whips them into shape One of the synchro pair heads straight for my bedroom window when they come down out of one of their manoeuvres, full beam on, all a-wiggling and a-jiggling as they form up for the next segment.
I watched several of the aircraft display this morning, as I mowed the grass at the front of the house, and I was very aware of the number of birds scared out of the trees between home and the airfield every time something loud went up. F-18 twice, Typhoon, the US Navy (737?) twin twice, the Reds, and later, coming out of my physio appointment, a twin engined transport (Transall/Spartan?) which may have just been 'arriving' rather than displaying.
As for the Arrows? They have a spare, which was seen flying with the nine display aircraft on Saturday, just before the Harewood House display for the Tour de France, although by the time they came in to paint the sky with their smoke, they'd dropped Red 10 and displayed as the usual nine.
that aircraft is also the spare so when one had a bird strike on Saturday that aircraft got used. Red 10 then arrived at farnborough via a shawbury squirrel this week presumably as they only have 9 red aircraft left so with another in a hangar I'd suggest they now only have 8 aircraft. ecsrobin said:
yellowjack said:
So I need to worry?
One of the synchro pair heads straight for my bedroom window when they come down out of one of their manoeuvres, full beam on, all a-wiggling and a-jiggling as they form up for the next segment.
I watched several of the aircraft display this morning, as I mowed the grass at the front of the house, and I was very aware of the number of birds scared out of the trees between home and the airfield every time something loud went up. F-18 twice, Typhoon, the US Navy (737?) twin twice, the Reds, and later, coming out of my physio appointment, a twin engined transport (Transall/Spartan?) which may have just been 'arriving' rather than displaying.
As for the Arrows? They have a spare, which was seen flying with the nine display aircraft on Saturday, just before the Harewood House display for the Tour de France, although by the time they came in to paint the sky with their smoke, they'd dropped Red 10 and displayed as the usual nine.
Red 10 - the spare is for the commentator I forget his proper job title but he's a Sqn ldr. He's also used as a whip so Saturday at waddington when the reds displayed with a hunter and 3 gnats he whips them into shape One of the synchro pair heads straight for my bedroom window when they come down out of one of their manoeuvres, full beam on, all a-wiggling and a-jiggling as they form up for the next segment.
I watched several of the aircraft display this morning, as I mowed the grass at the front of the house, and I was very aware of the number of birds scared out of the trees between home and the airfield every time something loud went up. F-18 twice, Typhoon, the US Navy (737?) twin twice, the Reds, and later, coming out of my physio appointment, a twin engined transport (Transall/Spartan?) which may have just been 'arriving' rather than displaying.
As for the Arrows? They have a spare, which was seen flying with the nine display aircraft on Saturday, just before the Harewood House display for the Tour de France, although by the time they came in to paint the sky with their smoke, they'd dropped Red 10 and displayed as the usual nine.
that aircraft is also the spare so when one had a bird strike on Saturday that aircraft got used. Red 10 then arrived at farnborough via a shawbury squirrel this week presumably as they only have 9 red aircraft left so with another in a hangar I'd suggest they now only have 8 aircraft. 
Hence my posting of some overnight painting going on to paint up another jet dragged from storage - but then again, with the run down of the T.1 fleet, there might not be so many in a 'primed and ready to go state'.......
Woohoo!0843hrs, and the "Vintage Pair" are back in business!!!!
Vampire and Meteor just 'whistled' in over my house. Hopefully the commentary will mention the two crew lost in '86 at Mildenhall when the real Vintage Pair touched mid-display. I'm presuming they are displaying together, as a pair? Or will they follow each other as solo displays on the day?
Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before.
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
SydneyBridge said:
Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before.
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
Not sure how this link will work, but there is a multi story public car park at the junction of Meudon Road and the A325.Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
I have never used it,(not even certain that it will be open, but I would be very surprised if not) BUT, I am told its a good place to watch.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farnborough/@51....
onyx39 said:
SydneyBridge said:
Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before.
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
Not sure how this link will work, but there is a multi story public car park at the junction of Meudon Road and the A325.Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
I have never used it,(not even certain that it will be open, but I would be very surprised if not) BUT, I am told its a good place to watch.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farnborough/@51....
Another spot i used last time was the top of the kingsmead multistory, Its a higher vantage point so you can see more of the low stuff over the airfield, but the adjacent tower block blocks some of the view which makes following them with the camera difficult as the disappear behind it and before you find them again in the lens they are gone. Not bad if just using mk1 eyeball though and again they go vertical overhead.
Both of these spots you will spend your day spinning around following the aircraft as you are right in the middle of the turning area.
I watched the red arrows from costco yesterday and was disappointed with the location, despite being close to the airfield its too low with too many close landscaping trees and office buildings, I was at the tyre center end though so may try the delivery bay end which looks more open to the east of the airfield.
Another great spot is the Southwood playing fields that have already been mentioned and map linked to, Its nice and open and you see the show square on the same as the airfield view, its just you see the back of it and they will turn and fly overhead unlike inside the show.
Those last two though may be too far to walk from the station though and the latter if you were to try I would consider investigating getting there from fleet station vi fleet pond, you used to be able to get out of the bottom of the car park and then walk along the pond and railway line all the way to the pyestock bridge and back of Southwood, but a long walk to the playing field, ok on a bike.
I personally don't rate Tweseldown, the canal and Aldershot ends of the airfield, great for a long lens shot down the runway but most of the action is focused on the other end of the airfield and whenever i have watched from that end most of the jets have turned before they get to the boundary. No chance of walking there from a station and not a lot of parking where you don't risk the attention of the police/marshals and being moved on from either.
onyx39 said:
SydneyBridge said:
Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before.
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
Not sure how this link will work, but there is a multi story public car park at the junction of Meudon Road and the A325.Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
I have never used it,(not even certain that it will be open, but I would be very surprised if not) BUT, I am told its a good place to watch.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farnborough/@51....
Don't bother trying to get into Pinehurst Road to get close to the field, the whole of IQ business park is closed unless you have security badge, to both cars and pedestrians with security check points.
Civpilot said:
onyx39 said:
SydneyBridge said:
Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before.
Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
Not sure how this link will work, but there is a multi story public car park at the junction of Meudon Road and the A325.Thinking of getting the train to Farnborough Main on the sat or sun with my son. If I then walk towards the airfield, where is a good place to watch the displays, that we can just sit or stand somewhere to watch? don't really want to go to a pub or anything
Will there be tons of other people also doing the same thing?
Sad but true, but I cannot afford the £45 to get in
I have never used it,(not even certain that it will be open, but I would be very surprised if not) BUT, I am told its a good place to watch.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farnborough/@51....
Don't bother trying to get into Pinehurst Road to get close to the field, the whole of IQ business park is closed unless you have security badge, to both cars and pedestrians with security check points.
I am going to Farnborough as a trade guest. Ive got passes and stuff and a nice lunch booked at the chalet stand of my favourite arms dealer.
Never been to farnborough before in my life.
It is quieter on the trade days? Easier to park? Actually, where do I park?
Or is it easier to get a train and then taxi / walk?
Never been to farnborough before in my life.
It is quieter on the trade days? Easier to park? Actually, where do I park?
Or is it easier to get a train and then taxi / walk?
onyx39 said:
What about from the Costco car park?
Lots of trees and Costco is actually a pretty tall building to be close to. You will get stuff right over your head but it will also vanish alot behind trees etc.The check points are just after the first costco entrance but the second entrance is closed off and locked. Last year we had police patrolling up and down Pinehurst moving anyone on who had got past the checks. Even those with proper badges were not allowed to linger around the road and had to move to their 'destination'.
yellowjack said:
1050hrs - I've just been treated to (glimpses) of the Aermacchi M-346 display. It seems to stay quite low, so much of it's routine is obscured by houses/trees opposite. It's an impressive looking trainer though. Almost F-18esque in it's plan view.
Got some good images of it Civpilot said:
Don't bother trying to get into Pinehurst Road to get close to the field, the whole of IQ business park is closed unless you have security badge, to both cars and pedestrians with security check points.
Is the view any good from down there? I do some contract work for a company in there and had an e-mail saying if we're going to be in the office airshow week we'll need to get a special car pass, but I can cycle there and my pass should get me in.Otherwise I was thinking Caesars Camp (west of the airfield the other side of the canal) which a lot of people reckon is a pretty good spot.
I miss the days when I worked at Pyestock, we used to stand on the roof of the lab to watch and were right under the flight line, used to look right up the M29's tail pipes when he did his tailslide
Annoyingly I'm not convinced I can get any time in the week to go and have a look, I've got a ticket for the weekend but it's usually a very different flying display to the week day stuff, although if the F35 isn't going to make it that takes some of the attraction away.
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